The fundraising so far has been hard work, the whole thing has been hard!
It has been almost 6 months since the interview with Lattitude Global Volunteering and about 5 months siince I was accepted into the programme.
I’m hoping in August of this year to go out to Ecuador to teach, I’ll be in Quito for the first week for the orientation and then off to meet the host family! Don’t know when in August, don’t know where in Ecuador I will be placed or the type of school and age I will be teaching.
To date there has been 3 main fundraising event, two cake stalls and one bucket collection in Tesco. The first cake stall was held on the 23rd of October at The Welsh Wildlife Centre, Cilgerran, really got us going, we did really well and a very generous gift of £50 from a relative
! A big thankyou for Llinos for letting us have a stall in the Autumn Fayre!
The second fundraising event was another cake stall, which was in Cilgerran village hall, which was on 6th of November, which was a bit of a flop, even though we did manage to raise around £40!
And then the latest one was on the 30th of December 2011, where me and my dad got our buckets ready to stand by the entrance of the supermarket - Tesco to collect. It was a tough day, as the day went along, the buckets gradually got heavier and heavier and so the aches began! We managed to do 6 hours with half an hour break! Over all we raised £428.59, which is astounding!
As well as baking gingerbread men non stop over the festive period! Just before Christmas I recieved another very generous gift of a £100 from a great Aunt. Also in work on the 5th of December there was an event on and managed to collect around £40! My Grandmother has been very busy making hand made cushions, which alone have raised £80, thankyou Mamgu (and Mum for selling them!) I have also been put in the local paper and also in another paper on the 19th of January, so get buying (Cambrian news), I have sent off letters to 25 local companies, I have had one reply so far which was from the Cambrian news
Plenty more fundraisers to come a non uniform day in school in February and a big coracle race planned on the Easter weekend!
Well between all of the planning for the fundraising, exams and coursework and getting two conditional offers from two universities! I’m hoping it will be all worth it! I know all this will be worth every second and every penny for what I’m hoping to be a totally life changing experience!
It’s all coming together slowly, edging closer and closer, next month I’m hoping to get the 6 month pack from Lattitude, when the ball will really start rolling I can’t wait!
‘Til next time!
Becki xx